"Scree Stage" Premiers at Des Moines Art Center

“Scree Stage” is a new sculpture by British artist Phyllida Barlow. It’s assembled for the first time in the Des Moines Art Center’s I.M. Pei Gallery for a summer exhibition featuring many of Barlow’s large works and her paintings.

Columns appear to grow from the rubble of multicolored squares and grey wedges on the sloping sculpture “Scree Stage” by Phyllia Barlow. It was assembled for the first time in the I.M. Pei Gallery at the Des Moines Art Center.

Some of the smaller columns reflect the colors of the wood panels as the sun shines on the large sculpture by Phyllida Barlow titled “Scree Stage” in the Des Moines Art Center’s I.M. Pei Gallery.

Photo by John Pemble

A new sculpture weighing more than twelve tons has been under construction at the Des Moines Art Center for two weeks. It’s titled “Scree Stage”, named after the debris of fallen rocks found at the base of a mountain. It’s the center of an exhibit opening this weekend. Iowa Public Radio’s John Pemble visited the Art Center as this massive new work of art began to take its final shape.